Medicaid Expansion

Volunteers needed in Queen Creek:  Gather URAPC petition signatures in front of Ted’s Shooting Range in Queen Creek, 18395 S 186th Way, Queen Creek. Contact: URAPC Chairman Christine Bauserman:   info@urapc.org
Lake Havasu Volunteers Needed: Former Sen. Ron Gould, one of the URAPC founders, will be gathering URAPC petition signatures at the Lake Havasu swap meet today.  Volunteers should e-mail Info@urapc.org Or call 520-235-2234.
America Rising – A Patriotic Renewal, Where the Constitution Comes Alive.  Shane Krauser to speak.  Show Low High School Auditorium.  Volunteer to coordinate signature gathering.  Please step up!  Sat., 9/7. Barbeque at 12:00 pm.  Event at 2:00 – 5:00 pm. 

URAPC Petition Sites – The following locations have petitions to sign.
If you can sit at a library, park, business and collect signatures for the final stretch please contact URAPC Chairman Christine Bauserman at  info@urapc.org or call 520-235-2234.
Phoenix Gun Show, AZ State Fair Grounds, 1836 W. McDowell, Phx. Sat-Sun, 9 am-4 pm.
Master Creations Jewelry, 3145 E Chandler Blvd #109, SW corner 32nd street / Chandler Blvd    3145 E Chandler Blvd #109, SW corner 32nd street / Chandler Blvd   Tues-Fri    10am-7pm, Sat 10-4pm
A2Z Electronics, 9333 E. Main Street, across the street from the LDS Temple.  M-F 8am to 6pm and Saturday 9am-3pm
Drive-Up Table:  N side of New River Rd., ¼ mile S of E. Honda Bow Rd. (btw. Honda Bow & 10th St.)  Mon – Fri, 5-7pm
Red Mountain Library in Mesa has a table set up Sat 10 am-5 pm. Contact  Karen Winfield at kwinfield1@cox.netmailto:kwinfield1@cox.net
Southeast Regional Library in Gilbert on Greenfield and Guadalupe – table set-up daily. 10 am-5 pm. Contact Cindy Biggs at clwb@cox.net mailto:clwb@cox.net
Tucson: Purple Heart Park, Rita Ranch, Everyday 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Willcox Real Estate Co, 916 W Rex Allen Drive, M-F, 9am to 5pm. Peggy Judd former AZ Rep "old" LD25
List of locations:  http://www.urapc.org/Locations_-_Phoenix.html

Sept 10 (drop dead date).  URAPC will take any notarized petition you have.   Contact: URAPC Chairman Christine Bauserman   520-235-2234   info@urapc.org 
 

Six more days until all signed petitions must be in the hands of the United Republican Alliance of Principled Conservatives URAPC.ORG. In fact, the organizers will head to the Capitol on September 10 to turn in the petitions.  Serious procrastinators can still get their signed, notarized petitions to them as they walk through the door!
As Yogi Berra famously said, "It ain’t over till it’s over."  And I’m here to tell you, IT AIN’T OVER.
Payson Library.  If you live in or near Payson and haven’t signed the petition to send Medicaid Expansion to the ballot, here is your last chance!  Payson Public Library:  328 N. McLane Rd., Payson.  Wed., 9/4.  10 am – 2 pm.
Unite the Grassroots:  The Future of America is in Jeopardy.  Thurs., 9/5.  6 pm.  Superstition 9.12 Tea Party Patriots is proud to present this presentation at the East Valley High School Auditorium (Northwest Corner of Sossaman and Main), Mesa, AZ. Doors open at 6 P.M. The meeting begins at 6:30 P.M. The featured speaker is Shane Krauser.  
The Phoenix Gun Show – Crossroads of the West Gun Show  (There will be a table outdoors).  Arizona State Fairgrounds.  1826 W. McDowell Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85007.  
September 7:  9 AM – 5 PM.
September 8:  9 AM – 4 PM
Contact:  Linda Brickman, 602-330-9422, luvbug1611@cox.net
NEED VOLUNTEERS!  
Coupon 
For more signature opportunities at valley and Tucson libraries, parks, private businesses, drive up tables, and the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, go to URAPC.ORG and see the various locations.  

If you live in or near Payson and haven’t signed the petition to send Medicaid Expansion to the ballot, here is your last chance!
Payson Public Library:  328 N. McLane Rd., Payson
Tuesday, 9/3.  10 am – 2 pm.
Wed., 9/4.  10 am – 2 pm.

The Phoenix Gun Show – Crossroads of the West Gun Show  (There will be a table outdoors).  Arizona State Fairgrounds
1826 W. McDowell Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85007.  
      
September 7:  9 AM – 5 PM.
September 8:  9 AM – 4 PM
Contact:  Linda Brickman, 602-330-9422, luvbug1611@cox.net
NEED VOLUNTEERS!  
Coupon 

Utopia:  An impractical scheme for social improvement.
If you’ve been gathering petition signatures to refer the expansion of Arizona’s Medicaid program to the ballot, you’ve heard some people smugly respond, "I’m for ObamaCare"!  I think everybody should have free health care."  Sometimes they will cite how their friends in England and Canada love their health care system, and how their government-run emphasis on preventive care catches diseases before they grow serious enough to require drastic medical intervention.
What they don’t talk about is how the National Health Service cares for people when they are sick, or how long they have to wait for an appointment to treat illnesses.  Keep in mind that most people are healthy anyway.  So, if your friends haven’t been really sick, how would they know how good their medical system is? 
Having a health care system available doesn’t mean you have timely access to it.   
Also, for those who say, "ObamaCare is not a single-payer system," know this:  The ultimate goal of Obamacare was and is to get rid of all the thousands of people who work for insurance companies, put them out of business, and have the government run our health care system, just like in England.  
Because these lovers of ObamaCare are impervious to statistics and reality, here is some information for you:
 
Waiting too long for an MRI or CT Scan Not due to Doctors Ordering too Many: BCMJ Study
"Patients in BC wait up to a year for routine MRI scans and Eddy said there’s no doubt in his mind that some problems are not diagnosed early enough.
“Do waiting lists cause harms like missed brain and spinal cord tumours? We know we’re missing some of these diagnoses.”
Britain gives America a Preview of ObamaCare:
"Last month, Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, issued a forensic report, commissioned by the government, which found that 14 underperforming hospitals in England had substandard care, contributing to the needless deaths of nearly 13,000 people since 2005.
"Earlier this year, it was reported that a single hospital in Staffordshire recorded 1,400 ‘excess’ deaths.
"The lack of adequate nursing staff, cuts to elder care budgets and a rise in immigrant populations are a few of the factors that have exacerbated the problem."
The Canadian Patients’ Remedy for Health Care:  Go to America!
"And wait patients must. A hospital survey of five countries (United States, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Australia), conducted by Robert Blendon and colleagues in Health Affairs found that “waits of six months or more for elective surgeries were reported to occur ‘very often’ or ‘often’ by 26–57 percent of executives in the four non-U.S. countries; only 1 percent of U.S. hospitals reported this. Half of all Canadian hospitals reported an average waiting time of over six months for a 65-year-old male requiring a routine hip replacement; no American hospital administrators reported waits this long."
US vs UK:  The Breast Cancer Survival Stakes.
"But five-year survival rates for all forms of the disease – including the most advanced – stand at 85 per cent in the U.S and just under 74 per cent in the UK. If the cancer is caught early – at what doctors call stage 1 – the differences in survival are even more shocking.

"An American woman has a 97 per cent chance of being alive five years after diagnosis.

"In Britain, this figure is only 78 per cent."
Facts About America’s Health Care Quality that the World Doesn’t Know. 

"To justify more government control of America’s health care, ObamaCare supporters frequently assert that access to and quality of health care in the United States are poor. However, the facts from source documents and medical journals show that Americans enjoy superior access to care compared to nationalized systems, the very systems put forth as models for ObamaCare — whether defined by wait-times for diagnosis, treatment, or specialists; timeliness of surgery; access to screening; or availability of medical technology and drugs. The separate issue of quality of care also demands analysis of objective data – and that means data from peer-reviewed medical journals, rather than subjective “rankings” and surveys by advocacy groups."
 

Just when you think this petition drive is beginning to die down, it spreads like wildfire!  The conservative grassroots voters of Arizona are continuing to pour in to signature sites, even as more sites get established.  Last week, Gilbert Watch sent out an email listing petition gathering sites that are being set up all over the state.  Check out the current list at URAPC.ORG.  Then click on "Locations-Phoenix" and "Locations-Pima" and "Locations-Counties."  There are so many events and signing locations popping up, URAPC.ORG can’t keep up with them!  If YOU have not joined this battle, do it now.  Do NOT let down hundreds of thousands of conservatives who want the opportunity to sign and exert their Civic Authority.    
We are not the "fringe extremists" that Governor Brewer calls us.  We are the Republican base.  “We read the Republican Platform, Governor”!  We stand by it, even if you don’t!   
Know this:  “There is one great thing that you men and women will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your great-grandchild on your knee, and he asks you what you did in the great War to save our Republic, you won’t have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, "Well, I believed everything Governor Brewer told me.”  No, you can look that child in the eye and say, “Your Grandma joined that battle and got 10 pages of signatures on those petitions, and never stopped fighting for this God-inspired Republic, just like you will some day”!

Are you planning a trip to the White Mountains area this weekend?  Christine Wilson has asked for help to gather petition signatures (Medicaid expansion) at the Taylor Sweet Corn Parade and Festival!  This event is on Saturday, 8/31 in Taylor.  It runs from 9AM to 5PM, but you would need to get there earlier for the parade, which is always good for getting signatures, because people are lined up! 
Please contact Christine Wilson for details.  Her phone numbers are 480-451-4825 and 928-358-4734.  Email is CWilson1000@cox.net.

If you are heading North on Rt. 87 for the Labor Day weekend, please stop in Payson and sign the petition to STOP OBAMACARE at Rim Country Guns, 513 S. Beeline Highway (also known as Rt. 87).   This will be easy to pull over, park, sign, buy guns/ammo, and get back on 87 to your destination.
Look for the table set up outside in the parking lot. 
Rim Country Guns
513 S. Beeline Highway (aka Hwy 87)
East side of the road, just north of the Dairy Queen
Payson, AZ
Friday, 8/30. 10 am – 1 pm
Sat., 8/31.  10 am – 1 pm.
For more information on the petition drive to stop ObamaCare in Arizona, go to URAPC.ORG